Toby Lütke

two quotes reflexive ai usage is now a baseline expectation at shopify and quote using ai effectively is now a fundamental expectation of everyone at shopify

the final item is before asking for more headcount and resources teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using ai what would this area look like if autonomous ai agents were already part of the team

point uh two is that ai must be part of your prototype phase the prototype phase of any project should be dominated by ai exploration prototypes are meant for learning and creating information and ai dramatically accelerates this process

this i think was not something we invented as something tesla did well but when you are a hardware company building a new brand a consumer market you really do need to start at a premium price point where you can sort of like you know build the company through the technology and move down